A26976:71
Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits.…
Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits. Two discourses, one in a letter to an unknown doubter, the other in a reply to Dr. Henry Moore's Animadversions on a private letter to him, which he published in his second edition of Mr. Joseph Glanvil's Sadducismus triumphatus, or, History of apparitions by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simons, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 3. But you say [The Omission of Immaterial in your Conceptus formalis, or which is all one of Penetrability and Indiscerpibility is not only a mistake but a mischief; it implying that the Virtus Appetitiva & perceptiva may be in a Substance though material, which betrays much of the ⟨p. 27⟩succours which Philosophy affords to Religion, &c.
Ans. Melancholy may cause fears by seeming Apparitions. I hope no body will be damned for using or not using the Word Material or Immaterial: It's easy to use either to prevent such danger. And I am not willing again to examine the sense of these words every time you use them. You know I said not that Spirits are Material: And you say they are Substances of Extension, Amplitude, Spissitude, Locality, and Subtlety, as opposite to Crassitude. And what if another think just so of them, (or not so grossly) and yet call them Matter, will the word undo him? But you say I omit Immaterial. Ans. See my Append. to Reas. of Christ. Rel. whether I omit it: But is a bare Negative Essential to a just definition here? Why then not many Negatives more, (as invisible, insensible, &c.) To say that Air is not Water, or Water is not Earth, was never taken for defining, nor any mischief to omit it.
Ans. Melancholy may cause fears by seeming Apparitions. I hope no body will be damned for using or not using the Word Material or Immaterial: It's easie to use either to prevent such danger. And I am not willing again to examine the sense of these words every time you use them. You know I said not that Spirits are Material: And you say they are Substances of Extension, Amplitude, Spissitude, Locality, and Subtilty, as opposite to Crassitude. And what if another think just so of them, (or not so grosly) and yet call them Matter, will the word undoe him? But you say I omitt Immaterial. Ans. See my Append. to Reas. of Christ. Rel. whether I omit it: But is a bare Negative Essential to a just definition here? Why then not many Negatives more, (as invisible, insensible, &c.) To say that Air is not Water, or Water is not Earth, was never taken for defining, nor any mischief to omit it.